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  • Lemmy’s current approach to finding off-instance communities is a UX nightmare.

    To the average, non-techy user pasting !<community>@<instance_url> to get No results despite knowing that community exists is… Offputting. Lemmy should not be showing No results while waiting to federate content, and it should be health-checking a search term before returning anything. A single request to <instance_url>/c/<community> would reveal it exists, and prevent this terrible No results response entirely.